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1/ Should we retire the phrase “herd immunity” in public health communication?
Not because the science is wrong—it isn’t.
But because the phrase often communicates something very different to the public than epidemiologists actually mean.
A small change in language could improve public understanding.
Not because the science is wrong—it isn’t.
But because the phrase often communicates something very different to the public than epidemiologists actually mean.
A small change in language could improve public understanding.
2/ To most people, immunity sounds absolute:
• You can’t catch it.
• You can’t spread it.
• You’re permanently protected.
But many vaccines work differently. They reduce the risk of infection, shorten illness, lower pathogen load, and dramatically reduce severe disease—even if they don’t provide complete sterilizing immunity.
• You can’t catch it.
• You can’t spread it.
• You’re permanently protected.
But many vaccines work differently. They reduce the risk of infection, shorten illness, lower pathogen load, and dramatically reduce severe disease—even if they don’t provide complete sterilizing immunity.
3/ The real goal has never been simply creating immune individuals.
It’s creating enough population-level protection that transmission slows and the most vulnerable members of society—newborns, older adults, cancer patients, and the immunocompromised—are better protected.
Perhaps community protection communicates that goal more clearly.
It’s creating enough population-level protection that transmission slows and the most vulnerable members of society—newborns, older adults, cancer patients, and the immunocompromised—are better protected.
Perhaps community protection communicates that goal more clearly.
🚨 GAME CHANGER Recently issued Catanzaro decision upheld by the Corte di Cassazione. The European Investigation Order is now a weapon against the prosecution. #SkyECC #EncroChat
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The investigative judge in Catanzaro issued an OEI (European Investigation Order) to France under art. 32 Directive 2014/41/EU: freeze the underlying French investigative files, prevent destruction or transfer, and secure access so the defence can exercise its rights in France. The Catanzaro DDA appealed. The Corte di Cassazione declared that appeal inadmissible. The decision is not “abnormal”. It stands.
The investigative judge in Catanzaro issued an OEI (European Investigation Order) to France under art. 32 Directive 2014/41/EU: freeze the underlying French investigative files, prevent destruction or transfer, and secure access so the defence can exercise its rights in France. The Catanzaro DDA appealed. The Corte di Cassazione declared that appeal inadmissible. The decision is not “abnormal”. It stands.
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Encrypted-platform material obtained via a foreign authority is unusable if fundamental rights (defence, fair trial) were violated — and the burden to show that rests on the defence.
The Cassazione now gives the defence the actual procedural tool to meet that burden: an OEI that freezes the source material and opens the French legal remedies.
Encrypted-platform material obtained via a foreign authority is unusable if fundamental rights (defence, fair trial) were violated — and the burden to show that rests on the defence.
The Cassazione now gives the defence the actual procedural tool to meet that burden: an OEI that freezes the source material and opens the French legal remedies.
@Mehcutcheon @DoDeportations Not something that you should ever post in a public place, on the record, because if a judge is assassinated, that post can be used by a prosecutor against you, even if you had nothing to do with that.
The real criminal justice system has evolved into a nightmare.
The real criminal justice system has evolved into a nightmare.
@Mehcutcheon @DoDeportations Not just guessing about that. I know a former public defender who shared his prosecution horror stories with me. "Innocent until proven guilty," in practice, doesn't come close to meaning what most people think it means, or even what it should mean.
@Mehcutcheon @DoDeportations There are hundreds of years worth of precedent that have been dropped on top of that simple seeming concept, some of it created by judges with questionable judgement. It's a mess, and it can be weaponized in order to do a runaround on the First Amendment.
@viking_boer The possible downside that I perceive is that this will be seen as an expectation and an entitlement, as opposed to voluntary acts of charity.
If the ‘community’ is not careful, donors can feel tapped out and potentially become resentful.
The best way for newcomers to
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If the ‘community’ is not careful, donors can feel tapped out and potentially become resentful.
The best way for newcomers to
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@viking_boer to proceed is to immediately assess the location, get the basic documents like Social Security number and Drivers License or State ID card (later to convert to Drivers License as appropriate), get connected online with technology, and focus on getting settled and making money
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@viking_boer Regular exercise is essential as it is easy to let it slip.
Finding jobs or establishing a business.
Kids in school.
Credit history.
While online Twitter is free or low cost, don’t otherwise get involved in U.S. domestic politics other than gratitude for safe refuge.
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Finding jobs or establishing a business.
Kids in school.
Credit history.
While online Twitter is free or low cost, don’t otherwise get involved in U.S. domestic politics other than gratitude for safe refuge.
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@ThePosterity76 @DoDeportations Fedposting, Rich?
Not saying that we should riot. Not saying that we shouldn't. Just saying that speaking about illegal activity in a public place and on the record is unwise, and that would-be rebels need to be smarter than the authorities to have any chance of success, at all.
Not saying that we should riot. Not saying that we shouldn't. Just saying that speaking about illegal activity in a public place and on the record is unwise, and that would-be rebels need to be smarter than the authorities to have any chance of success, at all.
@ThePosterity76 @DoDeportations I'm sure somebody will have an issue with that simple bit of common sense, but if so, then either he's a hothead destined to run into more trouble than he can handle, or a troll or a CEO trying to bait people into getting themselves into hot water.
@ThePosterity76 @DoDeportations Either way, not going to play along, because I know better. Even if that mental image of a "riot" in which the LEOs end up arresting each other because nobody else showed up for the staged "riot" is almost amusing. Until one thinks about the collateral damage, a half second later
A master gives three servants money and leaves.
Two invest it. One buries his in the ground to keep it safe.
When the master returns, the one who played it safe is the one who's condemned.
It's one of Jesus' most unsettling parables because it says something most of us don't want to hear about playing it safe. 🧵
Two invest it. One buries his in the ground to keep it safe.
When the master returns, the one who played it safe is the one who's condemned.
It's one of Jesus' most unsettling parables because it says something most of us don't want to hear about playing it safe. 🧵
First — what a "talent" actually was.
Not a skill.
A talent was a unit of weight in silver or gold, worth roughly twenty years of a laborer's wages.
One talent was a fortune.
The servant who received five was handed an amount most people would never see in several lifetimes.
"To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, each according to his ability." (25:15)
This isn't pocket money.
The master entrusted his servants with staggering wealth and then left, giving them real freedom over it.
Not a skill.
A talent was a unit of weight in silver or gold, worth roughly twenty years of a laborer's wages.
One talent was a fortune.
The servant who received five was handed an amount most people would never see in several lifetimes.
"To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, each according to his ability." (25:15)
This isn't pocket money.
The master entrusted his servants with staggering wealth and then left, giving them real freedom over it.
Notice the distribution: five, two, one — "each according to his ability." (25:15)
The amounts are unequal by design.
The master knows his servants.
He doesn't hand the one-talent servant five, because that's not what he's capable of managing.
This is important: the parable never suggests the servants should have received the same.
And when the master returns, he doesn't compare them to each other.
He evaluates each on what he did with what he was actually given.
You are not measured against someone else's five.
Only against your own.
The amounts are unequal by design.
The master knows his servants.
He doesn't hand the one-talent servant five, because that's not what he's capable of managing.
This is important: the parable never suggests the servants should have received the same.
And when the master returns, he doesn't compare them to each other.
He evaluates each on what he did with what he was actually given.
You are not measured against someone else's five.
Only against your own.
3 interesting findings:
1. More than half of single women believe they and their peers are happier than married women. They’re wrong, at least on average: Married women are more likely to report being “very happy” with their lives than single women, and the same goes for men.
1. More than half of single women believe they and their peers are happier than married women. They’re wrong, at least on average: Married women are more likely to report being “very happy” with their lives than single women, and the same goes for men.
2. The young people who joined the Summer of Love were not typical of their generation. In 1969, 88 percent of people ages twenty-one to twenty-nine said they had never used marijuana. Three-quarters also opposed leaving Vietnam, close to the national average.
3. Just 20 percent of adults accounted for more than 80 percent of all books read last year.
This is the Soviet Navy 'ALFA' class submarine, taken by the US Navy in the Barents Sea.
Feared by the West, briefed to Presidents and in the eyes of the CIA, an intelligence failure by the Intelligence Community.
A short thread on a Cold War legend...
Feared by the West, briefed to Presidents and in the eyes of the CIA, an intelligence failure by the Intelligence Community.
A short thread on a Cold War legend...
The ALFA was designed as a fast (41kts) deep diving submarine with tiny crew (about 30) to act as an 'interceptor' to interdict NATO forces in the North Atlantic. Construction of the first hull began in late 1960s, entering service in 1971, and being decommissioned 3 years later.
The US first observed Hull 1 under construction in 1967. Originally it was seen as an evolution not revolution, and while tracked, it took some years for the US Intelligence Community to appreciate its unique characteristics.
Federal officials just admitted in court, in writing, that they canceled $7.5 billion in clean energy grants for exactly one reason. Not cost. Not performance. Not compliance.
The state didn't vote for Trump.
The Energy Department reviewed 600+ Biden-era grants and recommended canceling some, in red states and blue states both.
Then OMB Director Russell Vought stepped in. He killed 284 of them. All but one landed in a state that voted for Kamala Harris. Red state grants flagged for the same reasons got left alone.
Vought's own words when he announced it: "Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left's climate agenda is being canceled."
Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Congress in June, under oath, "no decisions were made on politics."
The department's own lawyer just admitted in a new filing the cancellations weren't based on "any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction or performance-based factor." Just the map.
Real projects died. Grid upgrades in California and Oregon. Methane leak reduction in Colorado. Clean hydrogen hubs in the Pacific Northwest.
Who do you trust more with a $7.5 billion budget decision? The engineers reviewing each project on its merits, or Russell Vought with a map of who voted for Trump?
#DemsUnited
The state didn't vote for Trump.
The Energy Department reviewed 600+ Biden-era grants and recommended canceling some, in red states and blue states both.
Then OMB Director Russell Vought stepped in. He killed 284 of them. All but one landed in a state that voted for Kamala Harris. Red state grants flagged for the same reasons got left alone.
Vought's own words when he announced it: "Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left's climate agenda is being canceled."
Energy Secretary Chris Wright told Congress in June, under oath, "no decisions were made on politics."
The department's own lawyer just admitted in a new filing the cancellations weren't based on "any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction or performance-based factor." Just the map.
Real projects died. Grid upgrades in California and Oregon. Methane leak reduction in Colorado. Clean hydrogen hubs in the Pacific Northwest.
Who do you trust more with a $7.5 billion budget decision? The engineers reviewing each project on its merits, or Russell Vought with a map of who voted for Trump?
#DemsUnited
A federal judge already ruled on this exact scheme back in January, and called it out by name.
He wrote that the administration "freely admit" the cancellations were about the electoral map, nothing else.
CT Mirror's got the ruling, Vought's quote, and the Energy Department's non-answer, all in one place.
→ ctmirror.org/2026/01/13/cou…
He wrote that the administration "freely admit" the cancellations were about the electoral map, nothing else.
CT Mirror's got the ruling, Vought's quote, and the Energy Department's non-answer, all in one place.
→ ctmirror.org/2026/01/13/cou…
This isn't a one-time thing. It's a preview.
The White House is finishing a new rule by October that would give Trump's political appointees the power to review every single federal grant, all $1 trillion of it handed out every year, and block or kill any of it if it doesn't match administration priorities.
Not just energy. Education. Health. Housing. Infrastructure.
The rule would also restrict what grant recipients can say and do. Limits on their political activities. Limits on memberships. Limits on conference appearances. Vague bans on anything deemed "anti-American."
Antipoverty groups, scientists, city leaders, arts organizations, and law enforcement officials have already flooded the government with thousands of comments warning this could gut basic services.
Vought's defense: this is about "democratic control of the spending that is going out."
This case is what that control looks like when they've already used it once.
The White House is finishing a new rule by October that would give Trump's political appointees the power to review every single federal grant, all $1 trillion of it handed out every year, and block or kill any of it if it doesn't match administration priorities.
Not just energy. Education. Health. Housing. Infrastructure.
The rule would also restrict what grant recipients can say and do. Limits on their political activities. Limits on memberships. Limits on conference appearances. Vague bans on anything deemed "anti-American."
Antipoverty groups, scientists, city leaders, arts organizations, and law enforcement officials have already flooded the government with thousands of comments warning this could gut basic services.
Vought's defense: this is about "democratic control of the spending that is going out."
This case is what that control looks like when they've already used it once.
